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After the military system was established, the entire operating organization of the empire was finally established, and Shang Yi also successively invited enlarged cabinet meetings to discuss macro-national strategic development plans and the five-year development plan for this cabinet during its term of office.
The cabinet agreed with these two plans very much. After all, everyone understands the principle that everything is planned, and if it is not planned, it will be abolished. This is even more so for a country. It must have its own goals and plans, the goals of the previous empire. It is to unify the world. Now that this goal has been achieved, it is necessary to find the next goal. Only in this way can the country have a direction for development, and the emperor and officials have motivation.
The five-year plan of this cabinet during its term is related to everyone's vital interests, because now every year the Congress has to review the annual work of the cabinet. If the review fails, the cabinet can be carried out without any further investigation. Voting for trust determines whether the cabinet can continue to work. Although it is very reasonable to accept work review and supervision, the cabinet members are still a little confused and don’t know how to be qualified. Now a term is established. If you have plans within it, then everything will have a basis. If you should complete those things every year, whether you have completed the plans for that year, the cabinet team will have a clear idea when they work.
Therefore, after several consecutive days of enlarged cabinet meetings, many plans were established.
The macro-national strategic development plan is actually the declaration issued by the Empire when it was founded, such as the four people equality and the abolition of privileges, but it also added some new content. First, it insists on opening sea trade and strengthens and maintains external relations. The exchanges and exchanges must never be closed to the country; the second is to adhere to constitutional governance and constitutional governance, the third is to protect individual private property, and the fourth is to safeguard the country's territory and interests on land and ocean.
Of course, the macro-national strategy itself is a relatively large concept and cannot be formulated in detail, so it can only be written in a similar program. These four points actually expand the imperial state system and the highest level of future development. in principle.
Another five-year development plan for this cabinet during its term is much more detailed. After all, this is a task that must be completed during its term, so it is divided into several aspects:
In politics, the first thing to do is to formulate the first draft of the [Constitution], and at the same time, it is necessary to build and improve the administrative structure of the local government at all levels of the empire, and establish coordinated relationships between local departments and central departments.
Economically, we must fully restore agricultural production across the country, stabilize rural population, and complete land allocation work across the country. If conditions permit, national land inventory and household registration establishment will be started. At the same time, agriculture and industry must be improved. Tax systems in , business, minerals, monopoly and other industries.
In terms of external affairs, the focus is on the order of territorial expansion.
After repeated discussions by the cabinet, it was finally confirmed that the first thing to do was to solve the problem in the South China Sea. The main reason was that the Netherlands blocked the Strait of Malacca, which had a considerable impact on trade exchanges between the East and the West, although now it is in India and Europe. There are not many merchant ships, but the merchant ships from European countries to China and Luzon have been seriously affected. Although some European merchant ships have also avoided the new channel that cannot pass through the Strait of Malacca, the Strait of Malacca has been used after all. In the past two hundred years, European countries have become very familiar with the climate, hydrology and current situation here. The new channel requires a familiar process, and the accident rate is of course higher. Therefore, compared with the same period last year, Europe The merchant ships have been reduced by about 15%.
In addition, China has established a West India Company, so in the future, the number of Chinese merchant ships passing through the Strait of Malacca and traveling to and from India and Europe will inevitably increase. If the navigation problem of the Strait of Malacca is still not solved, it will inevitably be in the long run. It caused serious losses to Chinese merchants, so solving the South China Sea is mainly due to the issue with the Netherlands, which is China's current top priority for foreign countries. Of course, it is necessary to solve the South China Sea issue. Now it seems that there is no other way, only war.
In other aspects, in the northwest and southwest regions, the method of equal importance to civil and military affairs will be adopted. First, send envoys to contact the tribal leaders in these regions to promote the power of the empire, and require these tribal leaders to lead their troops to submit and send people to Nanjing to come. The empire expressed surrender. Of course, after these tribes surrender, they will manage and restrict the restrictions and give them preferential policies. Let's talk about it slowly. For those tribes that are not willing to surrender to the empire for the time being, as long as they do not fight against the empire, then We will not turn against them for the time being. We will first recover the tribes that are willing to surrender. Anyway, these areas are not in a hurry. We will come step by step. After all, the tribes that surrender to the empire are stabilized, we will slowly expand to other tribes. But if there is a tribe who is ungrateful and must be enemies with the empire, then you are welcome and will give them a severe blow and at the same time it can also attract other tribes to shock them.
The northeastern border area is still mainly expelling the Russian army. Therefore, through last year's war, the Russian army did not have much force in Northeast China, and the Russian army's weapons were far inferior to the Chinese army. The Heilongjiang Army established last year The zoning is enough to ensure the safety of the Northeast region. The most important point is that although the Northeast region contains rich resources, at this time, most of them were barren forests and barren lands. These lands are not too much now. Due to the high value of use, the cabinet officials do not care about this. It is just that the empire's national power is on the rise, and the Russian army takes the initiative to challenge the border, so of course we can't be polite.
Shang Yi was also very happy about the external affairs decided by the cabinet. It was not only because he had determined the order of expansion to the outside world. Guan Jianyu, after several years, the concepts of this group of officials finally began to change. We began to pay attention to the interests of the ocean and put the solution to the South China Sea issue first, which was for commercial interests. This was almost impossible in China in the past.
On the one hand, it is because Shang Yi has been instilling marine consciousness and marine interests into the officials, and on the other hand, it is also out of practical needs, because the Chinese Empire rose from the southeast coastal area and in the process of its rise Overseas trade provided sufficient funds for the empire. Until now, the empire's fiscal revenue still accounts for nearly half of the overseas trade. Therefore, many officials have also truly recognized the importance of overseas trade.
In addition, through the development of overseas trade in recent years and the vigorous support of Shang Yi, the national bourgeoisie in the southeast coastal areas also developed relatively greatly, forming a preliminary interest group, in the cabinet and the cabinet's subordinate departments. Among them, many officials are from merchants or handicraftsmen, which is also affecting the formulation of national decision-making.
And this influence is exactly what Shang Yi hopes to see. The rise of the national bourgeoisie is a country moving towards a modern path, which leads to a step in the construction of the modern path. In the modern revolutions of European countries, all of them are not. After the national bourgeoisie developed to a certain stage, it proposed more and greater political claims to the feudal autocratic regime, which eventually led to the outbreak of the revolution and established a modern country with the national bourgeoisie as the main body.
China is undoubtedly moving along this path of sheep. It is just that unlike this era, European countries have changed from below to above, but China has changed from above to below. First, the emperor takes the lead and strives to support the national bourgeoisie. It has also actively given up a lot of power, which has also made China's modern path relatively stable and there has not been too many violent conflicts.
After the plans were determined, they were handed over to Congress for a vote in the name of the cabinet.
First of all, the country's macro-strategic development plan was not exhausted, and the majority of the House of Representatives agreed with the votes, because when the empire was founded, many concepts were proposed, although some new ones were proposed. The concepts of such as protecting private property, constitutional governance, etc., are tenable in principle and are indeed related to the vital interests of the people. Therefore, it is not surprising that they are approved by Congress.
The five-year work plan of this cabinet has basically been recognized by the members of parliament. Needless to say, the constitution has been adopted by Congress. It is even more natural to improve local administrative institutions at all levels, and no one has any reason to object.
The same is true in terms of economy, so land inventory and household registration are things that every dynasty will do and must do at the beginning of its establishment, because it is the basis for a dynasty to govern stably and formulate various other detailed systems, although the cabinet It was just proposed that these work only began during the current cabinet's rule, but not completed, which is also a very reasonable thing.
Because of the transportation, information conditions, land inventory and household registration establishment in this era are very complex and complicated. Moreover, after nearly ten years of war in the empire, people were displaced and moved, and the land was deserted. The original land and household registration lists of the country were almost in name only. Even the six provinces in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, which had been under the imperial control for a long time, have not conducted complete land inventory and household registration statistics, so the land inventory and household registration must be completed. The establishment of household registration is not enough to take more than ten years to reach the cabinet, and it is impossible to complete it during the current cabinet's rule period.
The formulation of various taxes is reasonable, and Guan Jian is a tax content that depends on the whole.
Therefore, although the plans for these two aspects have been questioned by some members of parliament, the cabinet members have also answered one by one, which basically made the vast majority of parliamentarians feel satisfied and voted with a greater advantage. What really caused major controversy was in foreign affairs.
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